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Come join us here at the RDC JUG Town! Stanislas Matayo and the group in Kinshasa welcome you.
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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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During his sabbatical, Will McGugan, maker of Rich and Textual( frameworks for making Textual User Interfaces (TUI)), put his UI skills to work to build Toad. The newly publicly released tool aims to provide a unified, “beautiful” GUI for multiple coding agents in your terminal, accessible via the same tool via the Agent Communication Protocol (ACP).
By Olimpiu PopIn this episode, Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO at Azul, sat down with podcast host Michael Redlich, Lead Editor of the Java topic at InfoQ, and discussed the latest features in OpenJDK and Simon’s experiences serving on the JCP Expert Group since JDK 9. OpenJDK topics included: the six-month release cycle, Generational Shenandoah, JDK Flight Recorder, Project Leyden and Compact Object Headers.
By Simon Ritter
Now available in beta, Neptune is a conversational AI agent designed to act like an AI platform engineer, handling the provisioning, wiring, and configuration of the cloud services needed to run a containerized app. Neptune is both language and cloud-agnostic, with support for AWS, GCP, and Azure.
By Sergio De Simone
Meta released details about its Generative Ads Model (GEM), a foundation model designed to improve ads recommendation across its platforms. The model addresses core challenges in recommendation systems (RecSys) by processing billions of daily user-ad interactions where meaningful signals such as clicks and conversions are very sparse.
By Vinod Goje
This week's Java roundup for December 15th, 2025, features news highlighting: the fifteenth milestone release of GlassFish 8.0; the first release candidate of Spring Shell 4.0; point releases of TornadoVM, Hibernate Reactive, Hibernate Search and Kotlin; the first beta release of WildFly 39; and maintenance releases of Micronaut Helidon and Vert.x.
By Michael Redlich
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